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Make the most of Notifications with the redesigned Wear OS by Google
Today’s announcement of a new notification means that developers should:
➡️Make notifications more concise
➡️Set title and icon tint with color to set your brand apart
➡️Custom layout is no longer supported
Existing best practices apply for notifications, including the use of MessagingStyle and on-device Smart Reply. The new update will roll out in the next month.

To find out more about how to prepare for it, check out our developer blog: https://android-developers.googleblog.com/2018/08/make-most-of-notifications-with.html?linkId=56175724

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James Brown: So it seems we are stepping a little bit back to original Android Wear.
looking forward to seeing what it ends up as. I felt most of the step to AW2 was a move backward in usability from the original.
Can we have double press of the button to be screen off like it used to be pretty please? So much easier to do while changing a nappy than swipe down, wait, tap sun, wait, tap again.

Joel Page: Could you provide more information on Media Style Notifications and how they will look? The preview isn't very clear on that. Will it only show in the quick settings drawer? Will progress on notifications still be available? Also is there any way to test this out before the public release? Thanks!

Sterling Udell: Any chance of getting this on an emulator before it hits GA?

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DeNitE! Appz

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I updated all of my apps last week to target API 26 and as I suspected - I have already begun to receive emails and negative reviews in regards to persistent Service/Using Battery notifications. How is everyone else dealing with targeting API 26? +Hoi Lam - Suggestions? I am getting awful reviews now because of this - I totally saw this coming but I couldn't find any way around it.

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DeNitE! Appz: +John Doe hmm... Interesting... Thanks for the suggestion. I'm not sure if that would be a good option though... I'm thinking, even if I hid the notification, the system notification saying it's running in the background would still show.

John Doe: you can hide even that one

DeNitE! Appz: Interesting... I've just updated all my apps as +Ian Lake suggested... So we shall see what happens... I'm not sure about hiding system notifications though, I've already had a couple users say they don't want to remove the system notifications because then they can't optimise their devices properly. I'm finding as people don't fully understand what a Service is or does, they are quite upset that there is something running in the background. 😕

DeNitE! Appz

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In regards to complication types (Long, Short, Icon etc...) - Is there a way for the user to select which version they get, or is this just automatic by the order we input them into the "ComplicationHelperActivity.createProviderChooserHelperIntent" ?

Alejandro Pedraza

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I have an app in the Play store targeted solely at WearOS. As a result, it only appears in search results when using the store in the watch itself or in a desktop browser, but not in a phone. The store in the phone is probably the one reaching the biggest audience by far, so I think this leads to very poor discoverability for WearOS-only apps...
Looks like I'm gonna be forced to have a companion mobile app, just so people know my watch app exists.
Thoughts?

Sterling Udell: That's new behavior. As recently as this past May, Wear-only apps were visible in the Play store on the phone - but you couldn't install them anywhere (you got a message of "This app isn't compatible with your device.") Confusing at best.

I discussed this behavior with +Hoi Lam's team at I/O, and they agreed it wasn't good. I'm guessing this is their solution: make the app not visible at all. 😕

I'm not sure which is worse: an app that's not discoverable, or that you can't easily install when you do find it. Ideally, you'd be able to install it to your linked watch from Google Play on the phone, but perhaps that was too difficult to implement - or perhaps it's just not done yet.

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Thye Chean Lim

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In a game, besides touch, can I use swipe up or down gesture? I can't find much info here: https://developer.android.com/training/wearables/ui/ui-nav-actions

Wear navigation and actions | Android Developers

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DeNitE! Appz

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+Hoi Lam I was just wondering if there is still work being done regarding the Wear app being transferred to pre AW 2.0 watches. I'm still getting quite a few complaints and negative reviews from Moto 360 users stating the watch face does not transfer to their watches...

Thomas Hemetri: +DeNitE! Appz why don't you rollback to the previous embedded apk template?

DeNitE! Appz: +Thomas Hemetri With over 70 faces now, that is really a lot of work...

Pujie Wear: I'm also getting a lot of complaints about this. I always advise to leave the phone app installed for at least a day. That seems to work, but it is very annoying for the user that is takes so long before the Wear OS companion app syncs an watch app to the watch. But I don't feel like rolling back to embedded apks as I thought this will be deprecated at some point. Any new on this +Hoi Lam ?

MisterX Dev

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Hi! I'm sorry for my english but I'm italian developer and I do not speak english very well.
I would like to start to develop for wearable devices but I do not know if it's better at start with tizen or android wear. I think that tizen devices are much less than the android wear devices...or not ?

Thank you

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Rohith Miah: +Hunter Diederichs forgot about the Ticwatch pro, thanks for reminding me I was looking for a new watch after my Ticwatch E and warranty replacement had problems, but dunno if I wanna go mobvoi 🤷

MisterX Dev: +David Whittaker https://developer.tizen.org/forums

Hunter Diederichs: +Rohith Miah honestly if you're not in dire need of a watch I'd suggest holding out a few months. If Qualcomm is to be believed their new chipset should be significantly smaller, faster, and more power efficient than the SDW2100 chipset used in all the current Android Wear watches.

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Wear OS Developers Announcements

Wear OS Google Play Store policy update making Wear app review mandatory

To improve the quality of apps for Wear OS by Google users, Wear app review will become mandatory from:

➡️ 1 October 2018 for new Wear apps
➡️ 4 March 2019 for existing Wear apps

Apps that do not pass this lightweight app review will not be made available via the Wear OS Google Play Store.

The review process for mobile apps remains unchanged and independent of the Wear app review. Mobile app updates will not be blocked if they fail the Wear app review. To learn more about common issues, internal, closed and open testing, please check out → http://bit.ly/2vNTMtH

Android Developers Blog: Updating Wear OS Google Play Store policy to increase app quality

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DeNitE! Appz: Great! Thanks so much for the clarification.

Alejandro Pedraza: Hi +Hoi Lam , I've got an app that passed the review many months ago but it hasn't been featured :-( It's called "Top Machina". What are the other requirements? Looking forward to get that going so I can retire and start the down payments for a villa in Bahamas :-P

Hoi Lam: +Alejandro Pedraza Passing the review is a minimum requirement for featuring but it doesn't guarantee featuring. Apologies if this causes confusion.

Joel Page

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Is there any news for when Android 9 will be released for the Huawei Watch 2?

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Tihomir RAdeff

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On this page are the basics for creating a wearable app. It says that I should use compile and target SDK 26 but later I should use wear library 27. Why mismatch of the versions? This will be a warning in the Android Studio. What is the right way?

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